Scopus - Journal Analyzer

A new tool has recently been added to the Scopus database. The Scopus Journal Analyzer provides an easy way to compare the performance of journals, using Scopus' citations. You can compare up to 10 journals simultaneously, back to 1996. Results are updated every two months.

Essential Science Indicators

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an in-depth analytical tool that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analysis of research performance, track trends in science and social science and discover key papers, authors, institutions, countries and journals.

• analyse research performance of journals, institutions, countries, and companies


• rank top journals, scientists, institutions and companies by field of research


• identify significant trends in the science and social sciences


• determines research output and impact in specific fields of research


• Evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviewers, and peers


• Link to Web of Science

More information on important features is available from here.
Access is available via the Library’s Database page or via the additional resources tab on Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Platforms.

Peer Review for Quality Research

Carr off to bright start on research
by Bernard Lane The Australian February 27, 2008
"You need peer review (to judge research quality): peer review is the fundamental instrument for keeping everyone honest,' Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr told the HES yesterday after releasing an outline of the new system, called Excellence in Research for Australia."

getCITED: academic research, citation reports and discussion lists

getCITED is a free academic database, directory and discussion forum created by researchers and scholars for researchers and scholars. Members are able to enter and search all types of publications. In addition to books and articles usually available from other databases, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, papers in conference proceedings, can all be entered and searched.

You can search the database by publication, people, faculty or institution.

Members are able to link publications with all the publications in their bibliographies, enabling a wide variety of publication and citation reports.

Current membership is from 11000+ institutions, including University of Sydney.

Research Quality Debate

Research review heats up
by Bernard Lane, The Australian January 23, 2008
...greater reliance on citation metrics, Scopus, ISI web of Knowledge, local Publish or Perish based on Google Scholar....
read the full story

Scopus : Abstract and Citation Database Trial@Usyd

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources in scientific, technical, medical and social sciences areas. It includes 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers, over 1000 open access journals, 500 conference proceedings and more …. .

Features tools to track, analyze, visualize and measure the impact of research including the h-index

Scopus is available for trial from the University Library’s Database Page
until 15th December ‘07

Publish or Perish

"Publish or Perish" is a free software program developed by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing, from the University of Melbourne. It retrieves and calculates citation and impact statistics of scholarly publications, based on citation data from Google Scholar.
This software analyses citations for conference papers, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, books and book chapters, reports and publications from your website, not available in Web of Science.
Publish and Perish generates various citation metrics, including the h-index. This information is particularly helpful to researchers seeking promotion, tenure, and research grants. Citations can be exported to Excel, EndNote & Ref Manager. Citation statistics can be further manipulated in Excel to produce graphs similar to the citation reports in Web of Science.